** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 18 at 0104, University Network modulation is breaking
PMS up horribly, and making crackle audible out to 6081-6099. // 5935 WWCR is
clean signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580,
March 17 at 1330, I tune in Radio Australia and can`t tune away, even for NPR
Morning Edition. It`s a discussion about the Romanovs, on `Conversations with
Richard Fidler`, one of the gems of shortwave (incidentally, originating with
ABC Radio National). Here`s the post-dated info with an audio link to
it:
Simon Sebag Montefiore Friday 18 March 2016 12:05AM
Simon is
a prolific British historian, whose works - including the acclaimed Jerusalem -
are widely read. His latest work charts the rise and ruin of the most successful
modern dynasty, the Romanovs. From the ruins of a modest principality, the
Romanovs built a vast empire. They once ruled a sixth of the world's surface.
The family's tsars and tsarinas include the ruthless giant known as Peter the
Great, who built St Petersburg, and who tortured his own son to death. Another
was a brilliant German aristocrat who became Catherine the Great of Russia.
Nicholas II and Alexandra, the last of the Romanov rulers, were gunned down with
their family.
Further information
The Romanovs 1613 - 1918 published
by Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Interview recorded at a live event as part of
Adelaide Writers' Week, 2016.
Listen or download audio
Which
I do and listening later, would just as soon have missed some rather gruesome
history. But this mirrors what Rodney Johnson, NV told the dxldyg about the same
show 24 hours earlier:
``I was going to just keep on bandscanning after
tuning it but I heard a very familiar voice. Alan Alda (Hawkeye Pierce from the
M*A*S*H television show I grew up watching) was the guest of their
'Conversations' program. I couldn't tune on, I listened, transfixed, until it
was over. He was relating the importance of Science and Mathematics schooling
even though he was (obviously) an arts major. I ended up looking it up on
podcast (Alan Alda on bringing science to the stage)...
and listening to the entire thing`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11764.64, March 18 at 0039, very poor S3 signal, with
heavy splash from 11760 RHC, but I can tell it`s in Brazuguese talk, 0041 hymn,
i.e. SRDA, Curitiba, as always way off-frequency to the lo side. I tune past it
almost every night without bothering to log it. But I`m checking it since Mark
Taylor, WI, had reported in the NASWA Flashsheet,
``11764.7, TAIWAN?
Sound of Hope - tentative, 0059, 3/13/16, in Mandarin. Man and woman announcers
alternating. The signal faded down or signed off before ToH, so I didn’t hear an
ID. I couldn’t find a CNR 1 or jammer to //, so I suspect from the off frequency
that I was actually listening to SoH. Fair (Taylor – WI)``
I then pointed
out that this frequency smacked of SRDA, as reported on 11764.7 recently by
Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, but it sure wouldn`t be in Mandarin.
``Hi
Glenn, I was expecting SRDA, which was why I was surprised by Mandarin.
Mark``
Aoki does show 11765 as a 0.1 kW SOH nuisance frequency, and these
itsy-bitsies are rarely spot-on. Anyhow, tonight there is no sign for me of SOH
or a jammer, and nothing on 11765. Recheck at 0201, RHC is off 11760, and
Brazuguese audible on 11764.63 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 4765, March 18 at 0132 tune-in to no signal from R. Progreso, just in time
to hear it cut on during music. Should now be starting at 0030 during DST
season, until 0400. Maybe it was momentarily off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11670, March 17 at 2023, RHC is S8 but open carrier/dead
air instead of French. On March 15 I assumed they were broadcasting French at
2000-2030, having shifted it one hour earlier like English to 1900-2000. Guess
not. Still dead air at 2030, while 15370 is opening in gutteral
Arabic.
11670, March 18 at 0047, RHC Spanish on VG signal, but
undermodulated. Wiggle that patchcord? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 6050, March 18 at 0103, S8 monotonous wailing, i.e.
the native Waodani service of HCJB as scheduled 5 nights a week at 0100 per Aoki
which has all the language details. WRTH spells it Waorani and puts it in the
International sexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT.
9964.46, March 18 t 0123, R. Cairo is off-frequency to lo side for a change,
only S5 and no spurs audible, nor any modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, March 17 at 2031 UT, another daytime
groundwave check of KGYN Guymon. Now it`s wavering around S3, not with country
music but NCAA BKB from Westwood One, presumably an override (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, March 18 at 0058, I`m standing
by for the very weak R. Chaski carrier to be hit by the BBC/UAE carrier, but it
doesn`t happen until 0059:39.5 or so, more than a minute later than usual, still
just in time for the Hindi broadcast. Now there is a beat between the two
stations on slightly different frequencies, audible with the BFO offset raising
them to audible pitches. I`m back at 0110 standing by again to detect the Chaski
cutoff, which happens about 0110:04.5*, which is 36 seconds later than last
check 5 nights ago, 0109:28.5* March 13, or averaging 7.2 seconds later per,
maybe more than usual with margin of error invoked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 18 at *0114:10.5, SLBC
carrier cuts on, only S1 but no doubt about it with offset BFO; music prélude
starts at 0114:47.5, and 2+1 mis-timesignal ends at 0115:17.5. Someone reported
hearing a timesignal at hourtop 0130, so for the first time I am trying to hear
it, whether it match the sign-on one --- but cannot in the 0129-0131 period,
when there is also some noise obscuring the signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3370.5-USB, UT Fri March 18 at 0125, Air
Force MARS net, informal chat, guy is working on his master`s degree, and brief
weather predixion, no ID; Next one called is AFA6DN, and at 0127 next one
definitely IDed is AFA6LB with clipped audio. Per this list
AFA6LB
is a.k.a. AFB6AR and is in Arkansas, grid square EM34lp (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7365, March 18 at 0055, Pres. Obama says
``I`m going to Cuba``, and soon voiced-over translation to Spanish on Radio
Martí. Well atop jamming at the moment: are its days numbered?
7425,
March 18 at 0157, the Greenville leapfrog mixing product is funxioning tonite,
S5 but mainly with audio from // Martí 7365 rather than Vatican 7305 --- because
I find the latter is undermodulated on own fundamental, and can even hear some
Martí also under it there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. WORLD OF RADIO 1817 monitoring: confirmed Thursday March 17 after 2100 on
WRMI 13695, very good as usual. Also confirmed sufficient at 2330 on WBCQ
9330.01-CUSB, virtually on-frequency. Next:
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to
NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat
0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v
WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR
1860-AM ND
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area
51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed
1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
11530, March 17 at 2329, no signal from WRMI, which was testing for only three
days, but maybe will come back in A-16. Instead, BS is back on 11920 // 7570.
Ditto at 0044 March 18.
11530.0, however March 18 at 0048 I find a JBA
carrier here; only thing in Aoki is a 100-watt nuisance transmitter of Sound of
Hope in Taiwan, or much more likely, a CNR1 jammer against it.
9955,
March 18 at 0201, checking WRMI, I am surprised to hear PCJ Radio International
opening `Focus As--` until cut off and switch to R. Praga in Spanish as
scheduled, right into noticias, atop lite pulse jamming. Maybe they are adjacent
on WRN feed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
5129.73-AM, March 18 at 0139, WBCQ is on with discussion of Muslims and working
class, one guy with Britishish accent. That`s `Just Right` a show I first heard
some months ago but not much since (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275, March 17 at 1945, WMLK is on, deceased EJOM
intoning with some urgency but hardly hysteria, so relatively pleasant, and
enough signal to make it thru the 2-foot antenna into the BST-1 SW caradio,
relayed on 88.3 FM into my stock non-SW caradio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9942.90, March 17 at 2017, very poor S5 signal with
talk, which on the R75 I can match to the supersignal on 9930 of WTWW-2 as Ted
is pushing some FM feeder transmitter during a syndicated talkshow. Naturally, I
then tune the opposite side of 9930 for a match, and there it is on 9917.10,
also S5 --- WTWW is putting out parasitic spurs at 12.9 kHz above and
below.
5072.0, March 18 at 0136, WTWW-2 also puts out JBA carrier spurs
from its S9+50 night frequency 5085, and another one on 5098.0 almost
inaudiblized by utehash, so these are closer to plus and minus 13.0 kHz, than
12.9 from 9930. During blues/jazz music as 5085 happens to be on tonight, at the
whim of Ted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
** U S A. 7504.89,
March 18 at 0052, WRNO is already on with gospel rock, S9+40 but distorted, soon
a WRNO Worldwide ID at 0053.5 and plug for http://wrnonetwork.com to ``meet other
listeners``, submit reception reports, etc. Not much of interest there, but linx
to a program schedule
covering
8-11 pm CT --- and nothing in Chinese and no Deutsche Welle news relays either.
Is this up to date? During DST the nominal schedule is 01-04 UT, but they do
often turn on a bit earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 9370, March 18 at 0116, WWRBS is still on day frequency, and by 0124, not
on 3185 nor on 3195. Meanwhile, WWCR has taken over 3215 after 0100, clearing
6115. While 9370 is S6, slightly closer neighbor in TN, WTWW also still on 31m
band, 9475 with SFAW, is much stronger, S9+10; yet both are rated 100 kW (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1380, March 18 at 0147 UT, I`m
checking for KRCM, Spanish gospel from TX, but instead hear English ad
mentioning area code 901 a couple times. That leads to Memphis TN area,
inhabited by WLRM Millington, 2.5/1 kW U4 ``Blues Southern Soul and More`` per
NRC AM Log; but not much to go on, tentative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1580, March 18 at 0145 UT, gospel huxter from NW/SE
dominates, no doubt Colorado Springs under its latest format and call KFCS, and
10 kW day power past 0100 official sunset, instead of 140 watt night power;
overcoming my semi-local 1580 KOKB Blackwell OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1700, March 18 at 0143 UT, classic rock song in
English; would assume any station playing music would now be KKLF Richardson TX,
but they have been Tejano; diversified? The other TX and IA 1700s are sports or
at least talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
dispatched at 0517 UT March 18
